Dal Khalsa can’t hold march in Amritsar tomorrow

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, June 3

The administration has refused permission to Dal Khalsa to hold ‘Ghallughara Yadgaari March’ on June 5 to mark the 36th anniversary of Operation Bluestar. Now, the Dal Khalsa leadership has decided to send its five-member team to the Akal Takht on the same day at 5 pm.

In view of the pandemic and shopkeepers facing financial crisis due to the lockdown, the Dal Khalsa has also decided not to give the ‘bandh’ call this year.

Addressing a press conference, Dal Khalsa spokesperson Kanwar Pal Singh said the march by five members of the Dal Khalsa will be symbolic in nature.

He said the Punjab Government, through the Amritsar administration, has refused the permission to hold the march. “We had given in writing to observe the WHO guidelines and government safety instructions, but the administration has made the Home Ministry directives as its basis not to give permission for the march,” he said.